Privacy Policy
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Fynd helps people search the web and discover websites. We do not sell your searches or use them to build personal advertising profiles.
This policy explains how Fynd handles information when you use fynd.bot and its search features.
Your searches
Fynd processes the words you enter and the search options you select to return results. We save search queries separately without attaching IP addresses to those saved queries. These records support search statistics, trends, and improvements to Fynd.
A search can contain personal information if you type it into the search box. Saving a query without an IP address does not guarantee that its contents are anonymous. Avoid entering private information you do not want processed or stored.
Saved search records are separate from server logs, which can contain both IP addresses and search queries.
Server logs and abuse protection
Like other websites, Fynd receives your IP address and technical information needed to handle requests. Server logs can record IP addresses, requested URLs and search queries, request times, browser information, and response codes.
We use operational information to maintain the service, troubleshoot problems, and protect against spam, automated abuse, and attacks. Fynd also uses IP-based request limits to protect search availability. These protections are not used to build advertising profiles.
Logs rotate under the servers' normal Linux logging configuration. Retention depends on the applicable log settings rather than a single fixed period for every log. Separately saved search records do not follow the server log rotation schedule and may be kept longer for the purposes described above.
Cookies and search settings
Fynd's main search interface passes settings such as region, SafeSearch, and search type through the page URL. These settings do not require cookies or browser local storage. The main search interface does not use advertising cookies or third-party analytics scripts.
Search terms appear in search URLs, so your browser may retain them in its history. Browser history and any browser account synchronization are controlled by your browser and its settings.
Our infrastructure and images
Fynd uses its own content delivery network, operated in conjunction with DataPacket. This infrastructure processes requests and the technical information needed to deliver and protect the service.
Search result images, thumbnails, and favicons are intended to be delivered through Fynd's domain. Fynd's servers retrieve and cache this material from source websites so it can be displayed in search results.
Advertising and sharing
We do not sell or rent search records or provide them to advertisers. We do not use searches to follow people across websites or build personal advertising profiles.
Fynd may display clearly labeled ads based on the search being made at that moment, rather than a person's browsing history or a personal profile.
Information needed to run Fynd is processed through our infrastructure, including our work with DataPacket. We may disclose information when legally required or when necessary to investigate abuse, protect the service, or address threats to people's safety.
Links to other websites
When you open a search result or an advertisement, you leave Fynd and connect to another website. That website receives information about your visit and handles it under its own privacy policy. This policy does not cover other websites.
Feedback and privacy questions
If you use our feedback form, we receive the message and any information you choose to include. We use that information to review your feedback, respond where possible, and address the issue you report.
You can use the same form to ask questions about this policy. Fynd does not maintain personal search profiles, and saved search records are not linked to IP addresses. We therefore cannot identify a particular person's saved search history to retrieve or remove it. For general feedback, please do not send sensitive personal information. Copyright reports may require contact information as explained in our DMCA & Copyright Policy.
Copyright reports
If you send a copyright report or removal review request, we process the information you provide to evaluate and respond to it. This can include your name, contact details, signature, and the URLs or works involved. We may share information from a notice with the affected website operator or rights holder when needed to handle the claim or follow the applicable legal process. These communications are separate from saved search records.
We retain copyright correspondence as needed to handle claims, document our response, resolve disputes, and meet legal obligations. See our DMCA & Copyright Policy for reporting instructions.
Security
We use technical and operational safeguards to protect Fynd and the information it handles. No internet service can guarantee complete security.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page as Fynd and its privacy practices change and revise the date above. Where required, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for changes.
For more about the views behind this policy, read Privacy and Fynd.